▪ I.accumulating,vbl.n.|əˈkjuːmjʊleɪtɪŋ|[f.asprec.+ -ing¹.]The action of heaping up, of gathering, or growing into a heap. Also gerundially.1794SullivanViewNat.I. 76These different matters, in accumulating, form a cone, the necessary shape given by accumulated substances falling from the same given point.1861Geo.Eliot Silas M. 15How the love of accumulating money grows an absorbing passion.attrib.1852McCullochTaxation (ed.2) iii. i. 419By giving additional force to the accumulating principle, and by stimulating individuals to maintain themselves.▪ II.accumulating,ppl.a.|əˌkjuːmjʊleɪtɪŋ|[f.asprec.+ -ing².]Growing into a heap or stock; increasing.1824SoutheyBk.of theCh.I. 309A large and accumulating fund of good works, which though supererogatory in the Saints were nevertheless not to be lost.